Word: quiets
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Those who knew and worked with former Dean of the Business School George P. Baker remember him as a quiet and effective leader...
When the Harvard Business School Club of New York presented Baker with its Business Statesman Award in 1970, it praised him as "the quiet builder with the soft voice and iron resolve, the man who welded rather than hammered, the decision maker of the school of decision making...
...then, last October, she moved to an inner-city neighborhood in Minneapolis. The name next to her buzzer gave no hint of her paternity -- it read simply Qubilah. ("Really a fabulous person," says her building's owner, Mansoor Alyeshmerni. "Quiet and intelligent, very respectful.") But according to U.S. Attorney Lillehaug, she came to Minnesota with a purpose. FBI audio- and videotapes, he claims, indicate that she made eight phone calls in July and August to a Minnesota resident contracting the murder of Farrakhan and, upon arrival, she made a down payment on the job. If convicted, she could receive...
...staff engages in the same misrepresentation of the pro-life camp that it decries when it focuses on the "fringe" in the movement that "harasses and intimidates women entering clinics." If a woman is "intimidated" by an elderly bishop leading a quiet prayer vigil, perhaps it's not the protesters that are bothering her. Perhaps it's her conscience...
Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...